THE NEW YORKER record that I had obtained from the F.B.I., and suggested that he might like to tell about the first time he was arrested, which, according to the record, was In Paterson, on April 4, 1 931, for stealing an automobile. He studied the record for a few moments and then said, "The} 've got most of it righ t, but it starts back in 1 925, not 1 931. When I was eleven years old, I was sent to a reformatory in New Jersey, and I was there off and on for two years. I ran away eight or nine times, and they always caught me and put me back in. It was pretty rugged in those days. They had us in cottages, and in charge of each cottage was this cottage master. If you got out of line, the} would beat you up with their fists. Another thing they used to do was to punish the kids by making them stand against the wall, sometimes for hours. Plenty of kids fainted. I began fainting a lot myself after a whIle when they did that to me. I was sent there because I'd been stealing stuff-oh, chewing gum and boxing gloves and candy and a bicycle. Stuff lIke that. I didn't steal for the money, because I didn't know the value of money then. I was too young. It wasn't until I was around seventeen that I began using my brains and imagination and realizing the value of money. Another kid showed me how to break into a house. In those days, I used to use a kind of iron hook that you open orange crates with for a jimmy. You pry the window up and the lock busts. It's as good a kind of jimmy as any, in spite of all the modern improve- ments. I learned one thing right away along about that time. You ought to size up a house-find out who lives there-before you try to do a job. Then this kid and I had a quarrel about some- thing and I went off on my own after that. I got into a house in Paterson and took seventy-two-fifty from the billfold of a man who was sleepIng in a double (- .... ... . .; :. - .1IfI % tiþ , ý , , - l . m -- " 55 SAKS FIFTH AVENUE · NEW GUEST AND GIFT SHOP THE SALAD GOURMETS >.1> \ . . . . first at S.F.A. Great four-quart glass salad (or punch) bowl ensconced in black wire. 12.00. Matched blown glass oil and vinegar cruets, 6.50 the pair. Serving spoon and fork, clear plastic with shafts of black ebonized wood, 3.00 the pair. Collected for beautiful living and giving. '" , '" .. !!= .:! J .,fs '. j< '\1 / \ ,, : .. ' .. .". "" Mail and phone orders filled. Also available in our Beverly Hills store. Saue those precIous f f? ,u c::::. .. ., ;.oo " .. .- \)' morning minutes! Get the mail opened and distributed early, so everybody can get to work! Get a PB MailOpener' The new LE Model is electrically operated, all-purpose . . . snips a hairline edge off envelopes as fast as you can feed them. . . handles any size, tenderest tissue to toughest kraft. . . opens all the office mail in a matter of minutes! Good looking, built to last. . . Ask the nearest PB office to show you the full line of MailOpeners -or write for illustrated folder. . . PITNEY - BOWES, Inc., 1675 Pacific St., Stamford, Conn. . . . Originators of the postage meter, offices in 93 cities in U.S. and Canada. \ ---... ..... J @j PITNEY-BOWES MAllOPENER < "" , " v, ." .'" . :.. I....: .' .' ..;. : ). : ^"'" --.......... t" ..$ .....,. . :.: . . ..<<. ::, .' -"..,-:' ., , ...., .. . "'*'> .'::..<) . . .. <, .,... ->..Y y . Y .v<. :' '. :: :s;;" ' ..."'..... :..... {:t " '. ..::..:'/ : .<:<t . . ';: ^ . '*... . 18- " .^. . 1-? ..:;' :'. ., . :::=== :? J: . : ." ..1 '-'":":. ...... ;;..r '- ' ^ -:: ...:.:-:- -:- -:-". ::.,.. . : "<1:. .,. . '::.":: :: <:: . :. ". ,.. -:.-Ç ..r . >. -: tZ . .: ,^, :...?::. <<0-.,.: "^' ........--+."......... ...}:{..... ; ,f ". ":- : . 0" . 'J ,.:. . ...å . "', /.-... ...<: . ...